An issue was discovered in cyrus-imapd in Cyrus IMAP through 3.12.2. GENURLAUTH-issued tokens can bypass ACLs. Any authenticated user could mint a URLAUTH token (via the GENURLAUTH command) for any mailbox they could name, even without read access on it. This would allow reading mail from mailboxes despite having no granted permissions.
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Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:45:00 +0000
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| Description | An issue was discovered in cyrus-imapd in Cyrus IMAP through 3.12.2. GENURLAUTH-issued tokens can bypass ACLs. Any authenticated user could mint a URLAUTH token (via the GENURLAUTH command) for any mailbox they could name, even without read access on it. This would allow reading mail from mailboxes despite having no granted permissions. | |
| First Time appeared |
Cyrusimap
Cyrusimap cyrus Imap |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-863 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:cyrusimap:cyrus_imap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| Vendors & Products |
Cyrusimap
Cyrusimap cyrus Imap |
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cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-16T18:47:07.040Z
Reserved: 2026-05-18T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2026-47086
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-07-16T19:30:05Z
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